The Kerala Police has been "verifying" the mysterious disappearance from Kasaragod district of about a dozen youth who are feared to have joined the Islamic State terrorist group. Asked about reports that some Muslims from Kerala have been missing and are feared to have joined the Islamic State, according to their own relatives, Poli...
Over one lakh people have been affected by to floods in seven districts of Assam for the last few days, an official said on Saturday. A total of 112,307 people in 213 villages of Lakhimpur, Nagaon, Golaghat, Morigaon, Biswanath, Barpeta and Jorhat districts were marooned by floods till late Friday, the Assam State Disaster Management Authority official said. ...
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley here on Saturday indicated that the private sector can play a pivotal role in meeting the country's infrastructure and industrialisation deficit and added that the best of the sector is yet to come. "As we grow we are going to need lot of investment. There is infrastructure deficit and industrialisation deficit. The starti...
A social group on Saturday started an online petition to press for the release of Hamid N. Ansari, a Mumbaikar who is languishing in a Pakistani jail since nearly four years. An engineer-cum-MBA, Ansari, 31, a resident of Andheri suburb, had gone to Kabul, Afghanistan for a job interview in November 2012. He had befriended a Paki...
The protests against encounter-style police killings of an African American in a suburb here and another in Louisiana spiraled into a terrorist attack that took the lives of five police officers in distant Dallas as a polarised nation prepared for conventions to nominate presidential candidates....
Pitching for stronger business and trade between India and South Africa, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday laid emphasis on industry-to-industry ties between the two countries while thanking South African President Jacob Zuma for extending support to India's bid for membership in the Nuclear Suppliers Group. ...
In a setback to the government and the armed forces, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled the army cannot use excessive force during counter-insurgency operations in areas declared disturbed under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act and criminal courts do have the jurisdiction over cases of alleged excesses by security forces. ...
Milos Raonic became the first Canadian men's singles tennis player to reach a Grand Slam final after edging Swiss maestro Roger Federer in the Wimbledon semi-final here on Friday. ...
Burhan Wani, Jammu and Kashmir's most wanted local guerrilla commander who became a poster boy of militancy, was killed on Friday with two associates by security forces in Anantnag district. ...
Kerala will be declared an open defecation-free state on November 1 this year, state Finance Minister Thomas Issac said on Friday. ...
